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...real New Yorkers are superheroes by night, but each seeks to transcend the ordinary by excelling with indomitable spirit. Those rabid Yankee fans, like one of my co-workers at ABC, at once express their individuality and collective identity through their almost-excessive paraphernalia and fanaticism. Even the owner and manager of the local Subway franchise lives a second life. As a day trader, he most likely makes more money and derives more excitement playing the volatile stock market than managing his “sandwich artists...
Ganesh N. Sitaraman ’04, a Crimson editor, is a government concentrator in Currier House. As an intern for ABC News’ Investigative Unit this summer, he’s busy digging up dirt on terrorists and corporate executives...
...trend has metastasized into supposedly more respectable network TV, thanks to the success of Fox's Temptation Island and ABC's one-man-and-a-harem hit The Bachelor. In the innocent days of 2000, NBC decided the dating show Chains of Love was too declasse for a major network. Now it's airing Meet My Folks, a reality rip-off of the movie Meet the Parents in which Mom and Dad grill their children's suitors using a lie detector--and the suitors quiz Mom and Dad about their sex lives. "We just want people to have a good...
...Wall Street has doubts. The economy is clearly out of Disney's control, but not ABC, which lost 20 percent of its prime-time audience last season. "ABC is the one area we can turn to and say we have control over our performance, and it's our No. 1 priority," Iger says. The company will improve ratings by focusing more on family-oriented programming, he says. Though the results won't be fully visible until fall, Iger says advertisers have endorsed the strategy by spending $2.1 billion up front for primetime slots, second only...
...Clearly if you have a couple of hit shows your ratings can improve," says Jeffrey Logsdon, analyst at Gerard Klauer Mattison. "But they have talked about how ABC was a priority the last couple of years and it's still not happening." For now, an Eisner toppling seems unlikely. Even the Disney family could be brought back into the Eisner camp quickly if the stock turns up. Disney family members reportedly borrowed against the stock when it was much higher and may face a margin call if it declines further. Fixing that issue would go a long way toward fixing...